Materials Garden is a minimalist installation presented by MUJI created by Brooklyn-based designers Ladies & Gentlemen. The project, MUJI’s first collaboration with an American designer, celebrates the brand’s 10 year anniversary in the U.S. and underscores their commitment to supporting and promoting quality design worldwide. The installation, entitled MUJI Materials Garden, will be open to the public at the brand’s pop up space located on 434 Broadway in SoHo from May 19th -29th. The immersive installation, taking the form of a landscaped garden, MUJI Materials Garden features a series of vignettes displaying a selection of MUJI’s well-loved products composed with the raw source materials used to produce them.

The exhibit draws inspiration from MUJI’s commitment to simple and high-quality design which the designers combine with the curiosity evoked from a garden stroll, bringing light to MUJI’s honest, and unique approach to materiality. Each Garden vignette connects via a haptic stone pathway, encouraging visitors to ponder MUJI products in a new context by wandering, exploring, and discovering the inherent beauty of the products’ material origins. Ceramic goods sit atop a block of the clay used to make them, MUJI’s glassware emerges from a bed of sand (the main ingredient in glass) -the materials’ context, colors, and textures will convey the connecting element of MUJI’s broad range of home and lifestyle goods.